If you're taking your laptop to Paris and you have to download your e-mail over an expensive long-distance phone call, you still have to download that stuff even if it's junked before you see it. It's really sweeping the cost under the carpet. |
It shows that we're on a downhill slope. Companies, as they go into bankruptcy or find out more about the legal risks, tend to erect reinforcements around their posteriors. That's bad for the consumer. |
It shows that we're on a downhill slope. Companies, as they go into bankruptcy or find out more about the legal risks, tend to erect reinforcements around their posteriors. That's bad for the consumer. |
It's intolerable that e-mail can be used to silently zap a name tag onto you that might be scanned by a site you visit later. It's like secretly bar-coding people with invisible ink, |
Microsoft should be stopped from stating or implying that having a Passport issued by Microsoft is necessary to obtain access to the Internet. Microsoft is not lord of the Internet. |
My initial concept was deplorably vague. All I knew was that the Internet and privacy were on a collision course. |
Our usual practice is to talk to the companies concerned before the press, |
Responses to direct marketing are dropping in general. More and more people just throw mail away - especially unmarked mail - without opening it. |
That's like saying we can't have privacy laws for telephones to protect the privacy of telephone conversations because that might spill over into other areas, |
The Internet reduces the cost of gathering information about consumers to practically zero, ... Sending a piece of direct mail to a household costs about one dollar, so no one is going to send you 10,000 pieces of mail, but the cost of contacting you in the online world is virtually zero. |
The worst actors will be left to use the most sophisticated surveillance techniques as they please. |
There's an absence of consumer rights and a large number of small actors who are mostly criminals. Dealing with them is like swatting flies one by one, rather than putting up a fence to keep out all the dogs. |
They all find out that you opened the mail and they get an invisible tracking number, so if you go to a store ... that number is reported to them and they can build that information into a database, |
This bill is far too weak, |
We regard this as information that Intel behaved deceptively. |